The Washington Post, October 15th, 2002
THE ASTOUNDING ASPECT of the failure to reform the District's infamous payroll data system is that no one is serving time for the loss of tens of millions of tax dollars the city can hardly spare. To recall: In 2000, after a nine-year effort to reform the District's antiquated payroll and personnel system -- and after less than one year of operation -- the city's chief financial officer, Natwar M. Gandhi, waved the white flag, declaring that the new, $20 million, state-of-the-art computer system had been "compromised beyond repair" by poor planning and lack of controls. Now comes word from Pos...
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